Arrangement of Sections
Part I: Jurisdiction
1. Institution of matrimonial cause proceedings only under this Act.
2. Jurisdiction in matrimonial causes.
3. Void marriages and prohibited degrees of consanguinity.
4. Marriage of persons within prohibited degrees of affinity.
6. Validity, etc. of certain marriages not affected.
7. Special provisions as to wife's domicile.
9. Staying and transferring of proceedings.
10. Courts to aid one another.
Part II: Matrimonial Relief
Reconciliation
12. Hearing when reconciliation fails.
13. Statements, etc. made in course of attempt to effect reconciliation.
14. Marriage conciliator to take oath of secrecy.
Dissolution of marriage
15. Ground for dissolution of marriage.
16. Provisions supplementary to section 15.
17. Additional provisions to encourage reconciliation.
19. Refusal to resume cohabitation.
20. Desertion continuing after insanity
21. Restriction on finding of non-consummation.
22. Aggregation of concurrent sentences in reckoning imprisonment.
23. Restriction on finding of non-maintenance.
24. Restriction on finding of insanity.
25. Power to refuse to make decree without maintenance, etc. in proper case.
26. Condonation and connivance.
29. No dissolution where petition for nullity before court.
30. Petition within two years of marriage.
32. Joinder of adulterers, etc.
33. Effect of dissolution of marriage.
Nullity of marriage
34. Ground for decree of nullity of marriage.
35. Who may institute proceedings.
36. Incapacity to consummate marriage.
37. Restrictions on certain grounds.
38. Effect of decree of nullity of a voidable marriage.
Judicial separation
39. Grounds for judicial separation.
40. Application to judicial separation of sundry sections of this Part.
41. Effect of decree of judicial separation.
42. Effect on rights to sue, devolution of property, etc.
43. Exercise of joint powers not affected.
44. Decree of judicial separation not to bar subsequent proceedings for dissolution of marriage.
45. Discharge of decree of judicial separation on resumption of cohabitation.
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